mobile wallet

Mastercard Buys Oltio To Bolster Digital Payments
Mastercard Buys Oltio To Bolster Digital Payments
March 07, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Mastercard announced news on Tuesday (March 6) that it has completed its purchase of Oltio, the mobile payments technology company from Standard Bank Group. In a...

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PayPal Shutters Legacy In-Store Checkout Service
PayPal Shutters Legacy In-Store Checkout Service
February 28, 2018  |  Mobile Payments

PayPal is gearing up to terminate the in-store mobile payment services it launched several years ago. Citing an email PayPal sent to customers, Bloomberg reported...

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Square Cashed In 7M Users For Cash App
Square Cashed In 7M Users For Cash App
February 28, 2018  |  Mobile Applications

Square has revealed that 7 million people used its cash app during the month of December. According to Recode, the company disclosed the numbers in...

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Google Pay Smart Tap Hits The POS  
Google Pay Smart Tap Hits The POS  
February 27, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

To help shoppers use gift cards, coupons and loyalty rewards when paying with their mobile phones, Ingenico Group has made Google Pay Smart Tap available on its...

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Mobile Wallets: Where’s The S-Curve?
Mobile Wallets: Where’s The S-Curve?
February 26, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year mark for any...

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Feb. 24: The Unsung History Book Hero
Feb. 24: The Unsung History Book Hero
February 24, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

Some days will always be remembered — Oct. 29, 1929, for example (a.k.a. the Wall Street Crash of 1929). Others are symbolic for other reasons....

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Virtual, Invisible Payments On The Rise With Business Travelers
Virtual, Invisible Payments On The Rise With Business Travelers
February 23, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Barclaycard is highlighting what reports in Buying Business Travel call the “consumerization” of business travel payments, as more corporate travelers pay the same way they...

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Google Pay’s Play For Payments Ubiquity
Google Pay’s Play For Payments Ubiquity
February 20, 2018  |  Google

Google Pay doesn’t begin or end with a mobile app, but the next stage of its universal rollout does. Today (Feb. 20), the tech giant...

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Half Of Payments Executives Are Focused On Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Payments
Half Of Payments Executives Are Focused On Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Payments
February 19, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. When a consumer or a company wants to send a payment, they...

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